An extremely low-noise heralded single-photon source: A breakthrough for quantum technologies

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 22, 2012, Pages

  Brida, G ^a   Degiovanni, I P ^a   Genovese, M ^a   Piacentini, F ^a   Traina, P ^a   Della Frera, A ^b   Tosi, A ^b   Bahgat Shehata, A ^b   Scarcella, C ^b   Gulinatti, A ^b   Ghioni, M ^b   Polyakov, S V ^c   Migdall, A ^c   Giudice, A ^d  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI RICERCA METROLOGICA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d Micro Photon Devices   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ELEMENTS; LOW LEVEL; LOW NOISE; NOISE FACTOR; NOISE PHOTONS; OUTPUT CHANNELS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES; SECOND ORDERS; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; WAVEGUIDE OPTICAL SWITCHES;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; PHOTONS; PULSE GENERATORS;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

EID: 84870507474     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4768288     Document Type: Article

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